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Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Anticipation - "There's No Dishonesty In Reveling In the Anticipation of An Impossibly Ache, Pain, and Problem Free Future."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Anticipation - "Thousands of Years. Literal Bloodletting, to Figurative, Economic Bloodletting, to Sunscreen."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Two Guys on Your Head: Traditions
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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For many of us, Thanksgiving means spending time with our families, carrying out traditions that we’ve practiced for years. While it can be very s...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy is haunted by boots!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Jewelry Box movie poster
"Ghosts" in India are different in more than just their name.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Real Holidays
From: WHJE
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Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, or Kwanza we all have to go through the ritual of celebrating the Holidays. But does anyone honestly...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - Cooking With Wolfgang Buck
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
Movies That Make Your Holidays
From: Spokane Public Radio
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SPR's Movies 101 film reviewers give their picks for their top holiday rentals, traditional and not-so-traditional.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WVPE, WRFA-LP, KVSC, WVPE and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
14 - 'For 6 months Fermanagh is in Lough Erne!'
From: Raymond McCullough
Series: Celtic Roots Radio
Caption: Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh
Hosted by Raymond McCullough, in Belfast, Northern Ireland: with music from: Fiona J Mackenzie, Raggle Taggle, State of Undress, Ross Rudd, Alexand...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:58
My Christmas Tale
From: Kai McMurtry
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story of growing up and into the true spirit of Christmas.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 17:04
One Last Word: Signs
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2010
  • Length: 04:56
Shopping
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3 generations discuss changing attitudes about shopping

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
End of World in 2012?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Mayans said that the world will end in 2012. Maybe.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:26
How I Lost Religion
From: Susan Kottler
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A childhood encounter with a supposedly punitive God

  • Added: Mar 16, 2008
  • Length: 02:44
The Tears of Hillary Clinton
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A paean to pain - Hillary's, and ours.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:06
Shop til you drop. Or else.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look back at the most money-grubbing Christmas yet.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
Celebrating the Fourth with the Enemy
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's a most peculiuar experience, spending the Fourth of July in that Canadian territory settled by pro-British "Loyalists" who fled the U.S. afte...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, RadioFreePalmer, Marfa Public Radio, and KUNV


  • Added: Jun 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 4
Bastille Day Commentary: "Mercy Buckets"
From: Diana Epstein
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Commentary on growing up with a French mother. Very funny

Bought by KUT and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
April Fools' Day
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Unconventional Wisdom
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A brief, tongue-in-cheek commentary advocating making April Fools' Day a national holiday.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: (Christmas) Just in the nick of time
From: Spokane Public Radio
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By the time Christmas rolls around, I've lost the glow. I'm grouchier and meaner than the Grinch.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Happy Un-Valentine's Day
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A humorous rant about being single at Valentine's....

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
9 Reasons to Wear a Winter Holiday Sweater
From: Mary Ketarkus Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Droll short about ugly holiday sweaters

Bought by KDNK and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet:A Naked Thanksgiving by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Talking turkey about the birds and the bees.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KRZA, Delta College Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 20
Jingle Bells
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Christmas caroling--and setting a world record, in Medford, Mass

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, New Hampshire Public Radio, The PRX Podcast, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 4
I am 'Bi
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
I "Bi' regional man comes out"

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 06:50
Die, Christmas, Die!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Is Christmas Endangered?

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1